[AusNOG] Recommendation on a reliable/good 1000Base-X to 1000Base-T media converter.

[Chris Ricks]

As a general policy, we refuse to have services handed off on media converters.

Some carriers are notorious for handing off on these, but they generally do the right thing.

I strongly recommend investing in a switch and some optics, even if you need to go used hardware + non-branded SFPs.

Sam Silvester <sam.silvester at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 4:05 PM,  <adamn at eyemedia.com.au> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As the subject says I'm after a good/reliable media converter.
>>
>
>+1 to all of the suggestions against using these. Every circuit that
>we delivered or had delivered to us by these kind of devices 'back in
>the day' are now on managed switches.
>
>As well as the troubleshooting advantages as well as UDLD and the
>like, you also get the bonus in many cases of being able to multiplex
>multiple services through the one box if that's appropriate in your
>deployment scenario.
>
>Sam
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